Walden Siew
He will start Nov. 9.
Fred Gabriel, editor of Investment News, wrote in a note to the staff: “Walden brings to our team a depth and breadth of editorial experience that will help us to continue to evolve into the digital age of journalism. His hiring reflects our continued investment in top talent so that we remain the No. 1 source of news and information for financial advisers.”
Siew was most recently an editor of the Reuters Global Markets Forum. He left Reuters in December 2014.
Siew was also deputy editor of wealth and finance at Reuters, overseeing the wealth management, investment management and investment banking top news pages on the Reuters website. Before that, he was a Reuters reporter for four years, covering structured finance, credit markets, distressed investing and trading in the corporate bond market.
Siew also previously worked at Bloomberg News as a corporate bond reporter, a U.S. Treasury/foreign exchange reporter, and an emerging market reporter on the international desk.
He also worked for Gannett, the Washington Times and as as an editor and correspondent for an online economic newsletter on Southeast Asia.
Siew, a former Society of American Business Editors and Writers board member, has degrees from Boston University and Northwestern.
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